Highly Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fibers

Ortigosa-Blanch, A.; Knight, Jonathan C.; Wadsworth, W.J.; Arriaga, J.; Mangan, B. J.; Birks, T. A.; Russell, P. St. J.

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“…However, the confinement loss of case A structure (the number of rings N = 4) is about 0.04 dB/km, which is much lower than the value of about 490 dB/km (our calculated result from the model of Ref. [10]) obtained from a previous structure [10] with the small air holes array along xaxis when the air hole rings N = 7. To explain this phenomenon, the confinement field of our proposed case A-D structure is assigned to the PCF core, which is formed by the point defect and gives arise to more fields confined in the core region, thus the confinement loss decreases as more rings of holes are employed.…”

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“…In contrast, the small air holes array in the central part of Ref. [10] structure is a line defect, which demonstrates that most of the field leakage comes from the x-direction, and higher confinement loss is presented. In the same manner, the air holes near the PCF core of case A (all of elliptical air holes in PCF cladding are the same) are larger than those of other three cases (reduces some elliptical air holes near the core).…”

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A Comparative Study of High Birefringence and Low Confinement Loss Photonic Crystal Fiber Employing Elliptical Air Holes in Fiber Cladding With Tetragonal Lattice

Chau

Liu

Yeh

et al. 2010

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Abstract-We numerically compare the mode birefringence and confinement loss with four patterns (case A-D) of index-guiding photonic crystal fibers (PCF) using the finite element method. These PCFs are composed of a solid silica core surrounded by different sizes of elliptical air holes and a cladding which consist of the same elliptical air holes in fiber cladding with tetragonal lattice. The maximal modal birefringence and lowest confinement loss of our proposed case A structure at the excitation wavelength of λ = 1550 nm can be achieved at a magnitude of 5.3 × 10 −2 (which is the highest value to our knowledge) and less than 0.051 dB/km (an acceptable value less than 0.1 dB/km) with only four rings of air holes in fiber cladding, respectively. The merit of our designed PCFs is that the birefringence and confinement loss can be easily controlled by turning the pitch (hole to hole spacing) of elliptical air holes in PCF cladding.

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A Comparative Study of High Birefringence and Low Confinement Loss Photonic Crystal Fiber Employing Elliptical Air Holes in Fiber Cladding With Tetragonal Lattice

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Yeh

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“…Recently, highly birefringent fibers are one of the most successful applications of microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) (Ortigosa-Blanch et al 2000). Due to flexibility of design, this approach offers various mechanisms to introduce two-fold symmetry in a fiber.…”

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Numerical analysis of a highly birefringent microstructured optical fiber with an anisotropic core

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In this paper, modeling and optimization of a highly birefringent microstructured optical fiber with an anisotropic structure of a lamellar core is analyzed. The core consists of a linear stack of a high refractive index lead oxide glass F2 and a low refractive index borosilicate glass NC21A, which contributes to the anisotropy of two orthogonal polarizations of the fundamental mode propagating in the fiber. It is shown, that an appropriate choice of thickness and width of the layers constituting the core structure, enables reducing the dispersion of birefringence of the considered modes, in a wide spectral range. It is further investigated how a sub-wavelength defect, in form of a low refractive index glass introduced in the middle of the core, influences fiber's birefringence. We show for the first time, that nanodefect introduced into a lamellar core structure further reduces dispersion of birefringence in the fiber over one octave range. An average birefringence of 1.95 × 10 −3 with variation below 5 % is achieved in 800-2,000 nm bandwidth.

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“…It has a number of novel features such as low optical losses, high optical nonlinearity, ultranegative dispersion and polarization effects compared with conventional optical fibers. Especially, the research of birefringence characteristics of PCFs has attracted more and more attention (Ortigosa-Blanch et al 2000). In previous studies, a lot of methods to improve birefringence have been proposed, such as increasing the radius of some air holes in the cladding and using the intrinsic anisotropy of the elliptical air holes etc.…”

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Double-cladding rectangular-lattice birefringence photonic crystal fiber with elliptical air holes

Zhang

et al. 2015

Opt Quant Electron

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We proposed a novel design of photonic crystal fiber with the characteristics of high birefringence and zero dispersion. The structure of the photonic crystal fiber is composed of the rectangular lattice with double-cladding and there is an elliptical air hole in the core of the photonic crystal fiber which has the same size with the holes of inner ring. Simulation results show that the elliptical air hole in the core can enhance the performance of mode birefringence and control the properties of chromatic dispersion at the same time. We obtain the high birefringence B = 2.1 9 10 -3 and B = 2.9 9 10 -3 at the wavelength of 1.31 and 1.55 lm respectively and the zero dispersion point at the wavelength of 1.31 lm. The proposed photonic crystal fiber with high birefringence and zero dispersion will be important in the applications of polarization maintaining transmission systems.

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Highly Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fibers

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A Comparative Study of High Birefringence and Low Confinement Loss Photonic Crystal Fiber Employing Elliptical Air Holes in Fiber Cladding With Tetragonal Lattice

A Comparative Study of High Birefringence and Low Confinement Loss Photonic Crystal Fiber Employing Elliptical Air Holes in Fiber Cladding With Tetragonal Lattice

Numerical analysis of a highly birefringent microstructured optical fiber with an anisotropic core

Double-cladding rectangular-lattice birefringence photonic crystal fiber with elliptical air holes

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